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Blurry Gray Thing posted:I sort of found it. I used to read those when they were originally printed as short stories in Analog magazine, I remember being excited when the book collecting them all together came out. I still have a few of those issues floating around: 
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Pulchritudinous posted:I've been trying to find this mythology book from when I was a kid. I remember it was a larger format book, not very long at all. The appeal was the monsters were done in a very formal style that was wholly different from every other mythology book I read back then. The cover was grey/silver and had a kraken in the center. The weird thing is that this version of a kraken was reptilian (obviously it didn't have the port hole frame): ???  Edit: looks like these books were released in the US under the "Time Life: Mysteries of the Unknown" banner. Is this the dragon you remember? 
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Pulchritudinous posted:YES THAT'S IT! Thank-you!! There's 33 books in the series but I think this is the one that has those pictures (although I'm not 100% sure)  It's also entirely possible that they just grabbed those few illustrations from some other book
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My Lovely Horse posted:wait poo poo now that's a cover design I remember, but from German books. My hometown library had eight or nine of those. Yeah they were called Geheimnisse des Unbekannten over there
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Captain Splendid posted:Yeah, that's Funnybones It also got a TV series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZYsUOZmRwM
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Aug 6, 2019 13:15
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Really obscure cartoon from the 70s I think about a cat who hated Mondays and loved lasagna. Pretty sure that's the 1979 Don Bluth short film 'Banjo the Woodpile Cat'. He hated Sundays and loved spaghetti bolognese, you were close but you remembered it wrong! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjak1KGbZS4
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Aug 11, 2019 08:43
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Tumble posted:My white whale is this older (80ish?) medieval sword-dudes-on-a-quest movie I watched when I was much younger. I can't remember much about it, but there was a scene where a guy fell in a swamp and when he came back up he was just a skull. I never finished the movie because it scared the bejesus out of me, and that's pretty much the only scene I can remember about it. That'd be the 1962 film The Magic Sword (aka St. George and the Seven Curses aka The Seven Curses of Lodac) starring Gary Lockwood and Basil Rathbone. It's on Youtube, I've cued this up to the swamp scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_AcorJ9b6Y&t=2171s Here's the MST3K episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzhEnz2MhHI
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Aug 11, 2019 14:38
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Tumble posted:Hahaha, that's the one. It's... not quite as scary as it was when I was 6 or 7 though. Thanks dude, I've been trying to figure out what that was for the longest time - me and a friend had both seen the movie and gotten scared at the same part but we couldn't remember what the movie was for the life of us. I guess I should add I found it by going to the Wikipedia page for sword & sorcery films and clicking randomly through old ones until I found one that mentioned a character dying in a swamp. 
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juggalo baby coffin posted:there was a show that used to come on early in the morning on channel 4 in the UK in the early-mid 90s. i think it was paired with 'Once upon a time... Life', a weird show about the human body. there was one episode of it where they sang a birthday song that went like 'it's your birthday happy happy birthday'. I have spent so long looking for that stupid birthday song but it eludes me still. i think the people were in a village and doing a circle dance? What kind of village - modern small town Britain? Medieval? Cavemen?
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Aug 14, 2019 14:42
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Lindy Hopscotch posted:I got another one for you goons: My first guess was Treasure Planet (Treasure Island .... in spaaaaaace) but that came out in 2002. 
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bessantj posted:Mine is an Anime. It's one of this ancient prophecies one. Some guy traipsed all over Japan and receives seven wounds on parts of his body that line up with a constellation, the big dipper I think Fist of the North Star??? 
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henpod posted:I saw this fat batman model and found it funny, but can't find anywhere to buy it: It's a lifesize sculpture by Italian artist Francesco De Molfetta http://www.francescodemolfetta.info/le-mostre/
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Randaconda posted:A complete set of Time-Life's Mysteries of the Unknown or The Enchanted World that isn't 300 bucks I borrowed the dragon edition of the The Enchanted World series from my school library so many times. Took me years to stumble over a cheap copy afterwards, I'm gonna hand it over to some random kid who loves dragons some day.
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Archer666 posted:And aside from like 4-5 randos on the internet, nobody seems to have actually seen the movie. But the whole thing also seems really elaborate to be a prank. I remember flicking through it on Youtube years ago but I didn't watch the entire thing.
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Lindy Hopscotch posted:I got another one for you goons: I just watched Titan A.E. for the first time and it had a scene like that, the weird kangaroo thing is Janeane Garofolo and the weird turtle thing is John Leguizamo. It was on a space ship though, not a colonial times sailing ship. 
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The White Dragon posted:the suggestion and screenshot of titan ae just sparked this memory in the darkest recesses of my consciousness The whole awful thing is on Youtube. Here's a scene where one of the wacky anthro characters 'dies': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSNzaoCWtVI&t=4260s
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Overwatch Porn posted:one was a video that i definitely saw linked from here like a decade+ ago that involved the phrase "urban cowboy" or "urban country" or something like that and most of it was a dude in a cowboy outfit doing this hilariously awkward dance to this edm/country mixture song, and the video ended very abruptly on a shot of two people in a mall food court. i really wanna see it again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGi6lpib-rU Bonus goon video recreation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb_IQA9Zbow Edit: the footage originally came from a VHS film called 'California Big Hunks', Red Letter Media did a review of it one time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brmz6uL1S0s&t=1970s Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Nov 23, 2019 |
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MrChrome posted:About half way down this list I finally found it. The song is "Layton & Stone - Better World (Club Mix)". They're a German one hit wonder and they released this song in 2001. We should find out if this guy is still alive and what's he's up to now, just to complete this journey
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wit posted:There was this amazing documentary on UK channel 4 decade or so ago that had an actual scientist follow around and heckle a cryptozoologist as he basically paid god knows how much in tourist chain yankery to find the mapinguari, a giant sloth. Close to the end if my hazy memory is correct, he was told all kinds of stupid gibberish powers it had (I think mostly by children in a village, nonsense like it had several heads and its breath was a deadly poison), and STILL paid some locals to take him up to where it was last spotted, they took him and dr. heckler md there and I swear I saw everyone on camera smirking like hell or at least trying not to as he made this moo noise he thought mythological giant sloths with magic powers made. The end of it was basically him flouncing that the scientist was making fun of it. There's a paranormal/cryptozoology thread in PYF, I'd recommend asking there https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3898843
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happyhippy posted:We allowed porn movies? Part of me is going "Heck no I really don't want to know what kind of porn a poster with a 'Bald guy from RLM' avatar is obsessed with" but part of me is also curious so sure, post 'em up
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Axolotl posted:I'm looking for the name of this cartoon my wife and I saw about 5-6 years ago that we only caught the tail end of and have only vague memories of. We feel like it was Family Guy, or Bob's Burgers, or something like that but can't find any actual episodes that match what we half-remember of it. Family Guy had an episode where they timetravelled back to the Titanic which aired in January 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLWGWRHI8W4
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Teketeketeketeke posted:Space Strikers? Here's the intro sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4OKJp-ohkw
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You Are A Elf posted:Knowledgable in classic 1980s synthesizer goons, help a brother out with a stock sound effect that was a given in old ghost story TV specials and the like, especially The Real Ghostbusters cartoon. The cleanest version of what I'm talking about is in the song "Naughty Naughty" by Danger Danger (sound effect lasts from 0:09 to 0:14): "What instrument made that weird spooky noise" is a fun rabbit hole to dive into. Since you brought up Ghostbusters I'll crosspost this from the old CD Ghostbusters thread: Snowglobe of Doom posted:I've been reading a few GB articles and just learned all about this crazy bitch of a musical instrument:
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precision posted:I've definitely seen this. Google tells me it was in a Chase Bank commercial, which definitely sounds right. IIRC the commercial talked about how you were "free" to use your points or whatever anywhere, and after saying that, the song kicked in. Youtube doesn't appear to have it. This site has links to four of the ads but they have different covers/remixes and not the Soup Dragons version: http://www.splendad.com/songs/show/153-Im-Free.html Empress Brosephine posted:1. Commercial one was I believe a car commercial. It was a sedan and the ad featured some really tall basketball players playing a pick up game and then who manage to squeeze into the car comfortably. I can't find that exact ad but this company did a ton of ads featuring local sportsmen back in the mid 00s, see if the jingle sounds familiar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6CslpftOe4 Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Ugh, I hadn't ever considered the potential aesthetic power of advertisements, I still kind of mentally process them as anti-culture despite the fact that their memetic nature really is what set the standard for social media and everything else associated with it. Ad catchphrases and jingles buried their way into the zeitgeist like a goddamned tick, especially back in the 80s when most people watched free-to-air commercial television and there were way less platform options and channels and they couldn't skip the adbreaks so it was a lot easier for specific ads to become ubiquitous. I guess in 10 years people will have a similar nostalgia for memes and vines and youtube videos they saw when they were kids. Of course, there's already a huge amount of crossover between advertisements and memes and they've been cannibalizing each other for a long time already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPTZWhz46M Edit: we see a lot of meme nostalgia on SA already, there's been a bunch of times in the "Request images" threads where people have been looking for "that badly drawn comic where the kid is on the ceiling if a public restroom" or "that MSpaint image where a person has just finished making GBS threads and is dragging the toilet paper between their butt cheeks and up over their head continuously" or similar Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Feb 11, 2020 |
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:i don't know why but someone posting about that bank ad using the "i'm free" song made the entire ad play in my brain start to finish. glad i can remember that and not my anneversary, somehow. Someone on social media once wondered where they'd heard the song "Rhythm of Life" (originally from the musical Sweet Charity) in pop culture and I immediately remembered it was in a Dulux paint ad in the early 90s but I can never remember my mother's birthday
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Harvey TWH posted:2. A commercial (late 90s?) for Dr. Pepper where a couple of smart-rear end kids have rigged a vending machine to redirect its output so people put coins in and get no soda out, get mad at the machine, etc. The main parts I remember are a background song something like "gimme that, gimme that, gimme gimme gimme that thing", and the girl proclaiming one of the angry adults to have "no self-control!" in mock horror. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9zezJ7g5qE I recognised the song from your description at "Gimme Dat Ding" by The Pipkins, I heard it over and over in my childhood back in the late 70s because my dad used to love playing 'wacky song' LPs that had that and stuff like "My Friend The Witch Doctor" and "Yakety Yak Don't Talk Back" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNrmR6M1KtI Edit: I just googled it and apparently "Gimme Dat Ding" was written for a 1970s British TV show called Little Big Time which had a weekly live segment called "Oliver in the Overworld" which was super fuckin' weird and starred the lead singer from Freddie and the Dreamers Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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Obsidianheart posted:Voltus 5 Here's a clip with the chain mohawk weapon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC8whfZmg2U&t=60s Edit: someone uploaded the entire thing to Youtube, the voice acting is atrocious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_KoRb_F6Ls Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Feb 22, 2020 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:This thread worked great for me last time, so I'll try again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgPLrldxAAc
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I can't find that song because, as you'd expect, with a band named New Pants, it's hard to Google. And I'm not actually that great at Googling things. By the way, the way I found this was by googling '"New Pants" band', finding a youtube video of the band, using the 'related videos' list to find a youtube channel that had a lot of the band's songs and then randomly clicking them and listening to the first 30 seconds of each video until I found the one you were looking for. The quotation marks around "New Pants" in the google search is the crucial step, that ensures that you only get hits with the exact phrase "New Pants" instead of 5000 random pages which just happen to feature the words 'new' and 'pants' somewhere
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uvar posted:Looong shot but I've got a earworm I can only remember the rhythm of, and I don't even have a mic to record that. I think it's a rhyme or tongue twister or something? I don't think there's a tune. In syllables it's something like, a fast but constant pace, where double fits two beats into it... It's reminding me of a TV ad jingle were they work the phone number into the song There was an Australian ad where the last line was "seven seven oh seven oh!" (or similar) which seems to fit the meter but I can't remember which company it was for
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uvar posted:Looong shot but I've got a earworm I can only remember the rhythm of, and I don't even have a mic to record that. I think it's a rhyme or tongue twister or something? I don't think there's a tune. In syllables it's something like, a fast but constant pace, where double fits two beats into it... Snowglobe of Doom posted:It's reminding me of a TV ad jingle were they work the phone number into the song I remembered the ad I was thinking about and the meter doesn't quite fit your description after all.  It was the MUTHA FUCKIN' ROOF SEAL, Y'ALL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro_cusPGuYU
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Dolphin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpej3a7AhGI Dolphin posted:holy poo poo that's it, how did you find this This freaky claymation short was made in 1989 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1THMc9g5SaU
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Solice Kirsk posted:I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. I've seen sex dolls made with fake bones and buttholes held in place with balloons. I watched novelty condoms glitter in the dark near Mrs Tannhäuser 's taint. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
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Picayune posted:Probably this guy: Yep https://twitter.com/meetissai/status/1227044107651936256
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weed cat posted:There's also the Ondes Martenot - an early (1930s) instrument that is a lot like a keyed theremin, with three different speaker cabinets for different timbres. Not sure how many of these there are. The coolest part is the control - the keybed can wiggle for vibrato like you would on a cello; there's a ring you can wear on your finger for sliding note to note, and there's a touch-sensitive button for the attack. See the video below. The Ondes Martenot is awesome, it's one of those bizarre obscure machines that almost no one knows about but pretty much everyone is familiar with how it sounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5JgvmilwNI
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:Does anybody know where the bird in the right hand corner is from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUcfmZrClVM
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If that's not it, there's also a thread in the retro games subforum where you can ask for help identifying old games you're struggling to ID
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uvar posted:https://web.archive.org/web/20050608032651/http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/intermission/ Huh, they sampled Roots Manuva. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltP7L16A8Hs
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Crossposting from the Vague memories: Finding games you barely remember thread in Retro Games: A sidescrolling platformer that came out in either very late 80s or early 90s, probably for the Amstrad but maybe C64. The game art was pretty basic, not as simple as the early pixel art but mostly monotone themes. I can't remember the aim or the gameplay but I know you had to run around collecting various items for various tasks, the only item I remember is asbestos gloves that were heat proof. The cover art had some scifi character (possibly a robot or cyborg, possibly on the back on the box) saying "Yowza! Mega briltoid!". I'm pretty sure that the game was from the UK. The main detail that I remember is that the soundtrack to the game was a midi version of 'Respectable' by Mel & Kim.
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